Students participate in rope skipping activities at school.
Photo by Zhang Yun issued by China News Service
Need training to skip rope?
Such a question may be similar to the pure "prejudice" like "Can a physical education teacher be a class teacher?"
The only difference may be that the prejudice against physical education teachers has already been reduced by more than half with the change in people's sports concepts, and the misunderstanding of "rope skipping training" seems to have just begun.
Little skipping rope, big market
The skipping training market is booming.
The skipping training market is booming.
Regarding this, the industry feels the increasing market demand, while onlookers often feel the incomprehensible sigh.
On a certain life information software, a keyword search in Beijing area was "skipping rope", and 832 results were obtained.
As a comparison, the number of search results for "soccer" is 1,466, and with "ping pong" as the key word, only 668 related businesses were searched.
On a certain life information software, 832 related businesses were found in the Beijing area using "skipping rope" as the keyword.
Although in people’s perception, rope skipping cannot be compared to the world’s No. 1 sport "football", the gap in the number of its merchants is obviously not as "different" as people imagine. "Ball" seems to be justified, and spending money on skipping training is beyond the scope of many people's conventional understanding, but its data performance is obviously not in line with people's impressions.
Practitioners in the rope skipping training industry have a more real sense of the increasing market demand.
Zhong Shuijun, the vice chairman of Shanghai Rope Skipping Association and the founder of Jump Rope, introduced that as a professional rope skipping training organization, they have 14 branches and 25 venues across the country. In addition to the trainees who receive training, there are nearly 10,000 A regular member.
At the same time, he also told reporters that in addition to specialized institutions for skipping training like them, many fitness institutions, children's physical fitness training classes and other fitness institutions have also successively opened skipping training courses.
The skipping training market is booming.
Photo courtesy of Zhong Shuijun
In addition to the proliferation of training outlets, the price is also one of the reasons why many onlookers lament the "hot" rope skipping training market.
On the Internet, reports about the cost of rope skipping training courses are not uncommon, and the prices in the reports range from a few hundred for a class to tens of thousands for a class. Almost every time a related report appears, people will be concerned about it. Exclaim and question the conflict between "Such a simple movement" and "Such an expensive price."
Regarding the discussion about the price of rope skipping training, Zhong Shuijun seems to have a lot to say: "According to the data obtained by our 25 venues, the price of rope skipping training is generally almost the same as the unit price of other local sports training courses. "
In this regard, Han Yaogang, an associate professor at the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education who has been engaged in rope skipping promotion for many years, also confirmed that the prices of rope skipping training and other sports interest training are not too different.
"It's all based on the market," he said. "Many times people just take out some high-priced rope skipping training courses for discussion, which triggers controversy."
The premise that can trigger such a discussion is that no matter what the price is, it can only be established under the premise that consumers pay for it.
The market will not deceive people, and the price reflects an important indicator of market demand.
Do you think learning to skip rope is expensive?
This also proves the fiery market.
Rope skipping training class training.
Photo courtesy of Zhong Shuijun
Why is it?
Regarding the controversy of rope skipping training classes, the first thing that many people wonder is why it is the fire?
After all, in many people’s minds, skipping rope is the simplest exercise, so many people still have to spend money to learn?
Professor Han Yaogang first explained that, in fact, the first to promote rope skipping in the world was not the sports world, but the medical world: "That means rope skipping is a sport with a good fitness effect. At the same time, it is simple and easy to perform. Many venues, equipment restrictions, and high safety have laid the market foundation for the characteristics of the sport itself."
But this is obviously not enough to make skipping "stand out" from many sports.
"The'baton' of the exam will definitely also play a stimulating role." Professor Han Yaogang added.
Data map.
The picture shows children jumping rope.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Ma Mingyan
Zhong Shuijun also confirmed Professor Han Yaogang's judgment.
He mentioned that after 2008, people's understanding of sports has changed, but the first sports training programs that are accepted by the training market are football, basketball, and martial arts that are more easily thought of by people.
Since 2015, the demand for rope skipping training has increased significantly: "From the perspective of the entire market, the weather vane of the examination will definitely promote the industry."
The feedback from parents is also consistent with this judgment.
A parent who had not heard of skipping training before said that he didn't really understand that skipping rope training is necessary, but if his child has difficulty in the exam, he will still accept the option of training class.
What Zhong Shuijun called the "exam vane" appeared in 2014.
In this year, the Ministry of Education revised the "National Student Physical Health Standards" (hereinafter referred to as "Standards").
In the "Standards", rope skipping has become a six-year survey project in elementary school physical examination, and it is also the only item that adds points.
Individual indicators and weights of national student physical fitness monitoring.
In "Standard", there are also 50-meter running, standing long jump, diagonal pull-ups (male), pull-ups (male), one-minute sit-ups, grip strength, 50-meter × 8 round-trip running, 800-meter running (female) and 1000-meter running (male) and other sports.
In contrast, it seems that only skipping is a "training class" item.
The "Standard" shows that from grade one to grade four, one-minute rope skipping accounts for 20% of the weight of the physical test. By the fifth and sixth grades, the proportion of skipping rope will drop to 10%.
The "Standard" also stated that only those who have achieved good physical test scores or above are eligible to participate in the awards.
This also means that if students have a total score of less than 80 in the physical test, no matter how good their cultural class scores are, they will not be eligible for the awards.
In this way, sports performance is playing an increasingly important role in the evaluation of students, and rope skipping can have a significant impact on students' physical performance. Students, parents and even schools are paying more and more attention to skipping rope.
The scoring standard of primary school physical test skipping item.
And even if you don’t pursue the “top-notch” performance in extra points and physical tests, based on the inspection standard of the 1-minute rope skipping project, the first grade elementary school students need to jump more than 78 within 60 seconds to get a good and above evaluation. It is not an easily attainable standard.
And some schools set standards even higher than the physical test requirements.
This will push students to invest more energy in sports and master certain skills.
As Han Yaogang and Zhong Shuijun have repeatedly emphasized, rope skipping may seem simple, but it is actually a highly technical sport that requires special learning and is worth learning.
"The main audience for rope skipping training is children from the middle class of kindergarten to the third grade of elementary school. It is inherently difficult to teach them motor skills, not to mention many parents themselves have not mastered rope skipping skills." Zhong Shuijun commented.
Especially how to let children "never come to the meeting" and master the basic skills of skipping rope.
This also constitutes the biggest demand in the current skipping training market.
And when the guidance that families and schools can provide cannot meet this need, the demand will naturally overflow from the school and be released in business training services.
In this way, it is not surprising that racing and even rope skipping training oriented towards exams should rise.
Children undergoing training.
Photo courtesy of Zhong Shuijun
Take an exam? Training class? Not necessarily derogatory
The two words "exam-taking" and "training class" appeared together, adding some accusations to the incomprehension of the "rope skipping training class".
But in the view of Beijing Sport University professor Huang Yaling, at least in the case of rope skipping, there is nothing wrong with this increase in demand caused by the “baton” of the exam.
Children participate in skipping training.
Photo courtesy of Zhong Shuijun
"Compared with other disciplines, the'exam-taking' of physical education is actually fundamentally different, that is, in this process, the goal of getting students to participate is indeed achieved. Moved, mastered sports skills, improved physical fitness, at least right Youth participation in sports activities is promoted.” Professor Huang Yaling expressed her views.
This is not just a theoretical judgment. Many parents have said: “Rather than playing mobile phones at home, it is better to register for a class to learn and jump, and improve your grades.” In a certain life software, although its expression The original intention of participating in the training is mostly related to the examination, but the evaluation is basically not negative.
When interpreting the recent hot trend of rope skipping training, Zhong Shuijun mentioned: "Now parents want to find a safe, and can respond to the education examination, and they will choose rope skipping when they are related to physical exercise."
In a certain life software, parents' evaluation of rope skipping training.
At the same time, children came into contact with skipping rope in this context, and then turned from "exam-taking" to interest in the follow-up exercises. This situation is also common.
As for rope skipping, Professor Huang Yaling further explained that while rope skipping can be evaluated quantified, it can truly achieve the goal of enabling students to master a sports technique.
"Therefore, the driving effect of the educational examination is completely appropriate for the project of skipping rope."
Moreover, the guiding role of this "baton" is not just to drive the training market.
The rope skipping club affiliated to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is training.
Photo courtesy of Tang Xuepeng
"It's not too easy to tell the truth (up to 120). It depends on the status. If you break once in the middle, it will hang." Sophomore Miao Miao's father told reporters.
Miao Miao loves to move since she was a child. It is not a problem to pass the rope skipping test after school, but to have a better performance requires some special learning.
And her need for rope skipping training was solved in school.
"Our rope skipping club was established in October 2019, mainly based on the needs of the children. Children like skipping rope very much. Many children have achieved full marks in physical fitness tests, but want to break through themselves, so they set up skipping rope. Association." Tang Xuepeng, a physical education teacher at the primary school affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and coach of the school's rope skipping club, described the original intention of setting up the rope skipping club.
And Miao Miao loves to move. When he was 5 or 6 years old, he took a skipping rope to play downstairs. After enrolling in school, he had no problem with skipping.
Primary school students attached to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences participated in rope skipping club training.
Photo courtesy of Tang Xuepeng
"After studying in the club, she increased the speed of rope skipping. It turned out to be very high. Later, she learned to jump on her toes, and also learned to double swing. The rope skipping technique must have improved, and her physical test results are of course better than before. "Dad Miaomiao affirmed the child's progress after receiving the rope skipping training.
According to Tang Xuepeng, the establishment of the rope skipping club is not only to give the children in the club a "top-notch" opportunity. Driven by such an atmosphere, more children around are willing to devote their energy to skipping rope.
"For the children in the club, they can definitely reach the full score level. During our training, there will be many children watching. They will be interested, imitate and learn. It is also a driving force for other children." Teacher Tang said.
It is understood that so far, there are more than a dozen schools in Haidian District, Beijing, and there are rope skipping clubs like the Primary School Attached to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Students from the Primary School Attached to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences participated in the Haidian District Rope Skipping Competition.
Photo courtesy of Tang Xuepeng
In this way, commercial training institutions are not the only guidance of the "baton", nor the only way to solve the need for "exam-taking".
As for skipping rope alone, the driving force brought by the test has indeed achieved the goal of allowing more children to participate in rope skipping activities.
The opposite of the boom
In the view of Professor Huang Yaling, rather than questioning whether the value of skipping rope is worth training, the huge demand reflected by the popularity of rope skipping training is more worthy of attention.
In her view, such needs can be met in many ways: family, school, society... When the family and school are not enough to fully meet these needs, the needs naturally need to be transferred in other ways and flow to the best fit. Where needed.
In terms of market performance, this place has been a commercial training institution so far.
Children participating in rope skipping training.
Photo courtesy of Zhong Shuijun
When talking about the future development of the rope skipping club, Mr. Tang mentioned that he plans to expand the rope skipping club to a larger scale, but the site limitation is a difficult aspect to solve.
"About 80 people, it's a scale that can be controlled under the current configuration." At the same time, he also mentioned that rope skipping is taught as a warm-up activity in regular physical education classes.
Obviously such a scale cannot cover all needs.
Professor Huang Yaling also said that this kind of demand should not be completely "pressed" on the school: "If you put these things on the school, then the burden will not be reduced at all. In addition, if the classroom content is completely test-oriented, it will be easy for students to The content of learning produces fatigue and even disgust. Nowadays, everything is talked about "entering campus", and the rate of enrollment has to be considered. School pressure is too great."
From this point of view, the rise of commercial rope skipping training is understandable.
Professor Huang Yaling reminded that it is worth reflecting on how more diversified choices and services there should be: "The needs are diversified first. Some children may need to learn to skip rope and pass the pass; some parents may want to ask for the best and meet the standards. We also want to have further performance and so on on the basis of this, and these needs cannot all be solved through schools. So we say that we should meet the needs through diversified channels and diversified service entities."
Data map: The picture shows students preparing for the physical exam in a training class in Hangzhou.
Image source: CFP Vision China
Therefore, when the demand emerges, compared with the question of “should skip rope training courses”, the question that needs to be considered should be “whether the subjects, methods and channels to meet the demand are diverse”.
In the view of Professor Huang Yaling, the school has already invested in the market and the market has already heard the news.
Contrary to the hot market, the energy provided by social public sports services to solve this demand is obviously insufficient.
Training institutions are sought after because they are almost the only "pouring outlet" for youth sports needs besides "schoolers".
When interpreting the "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Sports Work in the New Era" before, Wang Dengfeng, Director of the Department of Sports, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, clearly stated that "full mobilization of teachers, students and school families" to participate in school sports Work enthusiasm is required. As far as the situation of rope skipping is concerned, teachers and students pay enough attention to it, school and home are active enough, and the social aspect should be the future direction for further solving needs.
Data map.
The picture shows the 2020 Beijing Youth Physique Promotion Fun Games held in a community in Beijing, where the community’s youth fitness activities were launched.
Correspondingly, in the "Youth Sports Activity Promotion Plan" jointly issued by the 7 departments in 2018, the requirements and goals of "the development and growth of youth sports" and "the extensive training of youth sports instructors" were put forward.
"From the perspective of young people, I think youth sports clubs can be developed vigorously. The government purchases services to provide guidance for young people; some social organizations and non-governmental organizations can participate in it; others, such as the development of social sports for young people Instructors, etc. I think social sports organizations should be the most effective way for young people to participate in activities outside of school.” Professor Huang Yaling commented.
Professor Huang Yaling said that at the beginning of the 21st century, China had tried youth sports clubs, but the results were not satisfactory for various reasons.
But now sports is playing an increasingly important role in the education and life of young people, and it should also allow people to return to the social public service system.
"Society, school, family, and other aspects, if everyone agrees, the problem will be solved." She envisioned.
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